UPDATE: Professional Services Champions League (PSCL) would like to announce that the next official dates for the TEXATA 2017 Big Data Analytics World Championships for Business have been set for March 25th, 2017 (Round 1 Qualification), April 8th 2017 (Round 2 Qualification) and the Top 12 World Finals in Austin, Texas from the 6-7th May 2017. The online rounds of the competition will follow the familiar business-focused case study format for Data Science, Big Data and Analytics tools, technologies and problem solving. Register for TEXATA Round 1 on March 25th 2017 at www.texata.com

Global Training Camps 2017
Together with our global sponsors and international partners, we are exploring the introduction of the new TEXATA 2017 Big Data Analytics Global Training Camp program worldwide in 2017. The TEXATA GTC will be a two-day intensive technical training and leadership programs for the world’s best and brightest Data talent in business with 150-250 attendees, focused on three tracks of Big Data Analytics, Data Science and Internet-of-Things (IoT). Host cities under consideration for the TEXATA GTC are Sydney, New York, Singapore, London and San Francisco for 2017. We are looking to release further information and prospective agenda outline for this soon.

For further enquiries for participants, speaking and sponsorship, please contact John R Persico.

John R Persico
Executive Director,
Professional Services Champions League
john@texata.com

Kit Ho
General Manager, TEXATA
Professional Services Champions League
kit@texata.com

2015 TEXATA Finals Weekend in Austin, TX

Congratulations to Kristin Nguyen, TEXATA 2015 World Champion!

On Saturday November 7, the 12 Finalists from around the planet touched down in Austin, Texas to compete in the TEXATA 2015 Big Data Analytics World Championships Finals.

After a brief meet and greet between all the Finalists as well as the TEXATA team, the first item on the agenda for this action-packed weekend was a visit to the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the O’Donnell Computer Sciences Building on campus at the University of Texas. What followed was a quintessential Texan experience – going to the Texas Longhorns college football game. It was a rare chance for many of the Finalists, who for the first time got to attend a college football game amongst the fanfare of the 400-strong Longhorn marching band, fireworks, endless hotdog stalls.

The Finals testing held on Sunday morning at the Cisco facility in Austin comprised of a technical briefing session, 4 hours of testing as well as presentations to the judges and QDT by each of the Finalists about their models. After the gruelling testing session, the Finalists went on a relaxing bus tour through Austin. In the evening, they enjoyed a Texan BBQ Banquet where they were able to wind down and mingle amongst judges, event partners and the TEXATA team. During the dinner, we took the opportunity to announce the Top 5 from this year’s competition, who would go on to present their solution at Monday’s TEXATA Summit.

The TEXATA 2015 prizewinners were announced at the Live Finals Ceremony, held in conjunction with the TEXATA Summit on Monday November 9. Congratulations to:

World Champion 2015
Kristin Nguyen (HP Labs Singapore, Vietnam)

Kristin achieved 2nd place when she competed in TEXATA 2014, and nothing was going to stop her from competing again to get to the top spot. We were very happy to see Kristin amongst the top competitors throughout Online Round 1 and 2, and eventually qualifying herself for the Finals in Austin to give herself another chance at the grand prize. Suffice to say, 2014 was definitely no fluke!